{"id":17111,"date":"2010-09-02T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17111"},"modified":"2010-09-02T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:40:10","slug":"levin-matt-walking-man-comics-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17111","title":{"rendered":"Levin, Matt &#8211; Walking Man Comics #34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/walkingmancomics.comicspace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:walkingmancomics@comcast.net\">E-mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/walkingman341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17112\" title=\"walkingman341\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/walkingman341-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/walkingman341-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/walkingman341-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/walkingman341.jpg 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Walking Man Comics #34<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt Levin has been doing\u00c2\u00a0 comics for a very long time, or at least he has in &#8220;internet years&#8221;. I reviewed one of his books age ago (oddly, it was #38), but he just sent me a few books, so it&#8217;s clear that he is still cranking them out.\u00c2\u00a0 My confusion last time is the same as this time: are they all done with rubber stamps?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s an interesting idea, but I just don&#8217;t see how it holds together for at least 59 books.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, that&#8217;s not my concern, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s talk about this one.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a story about the belief in magic or, rather, why people believe in magic at all.\u00c2\u00a0 He makes a few good points about it (this is basically a poem, so it meanders a bit) then circles back around to believing that there is at least one thing in humanity that is magical, but what kind of reviewer would I be if I spoiled that for you?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting how he lists the source for all his stamps at the end of the book, so if you wanted to produce one of these comics, it&#8217;s easy enough to do.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, you do also need a bit of talent, as a simple story of hope, longing and peace isn&#8217;t that easy to pull off.\u00c2\u00a0 He has plenty of these books available but no sort of coherent website to check them out, which is a shame.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, samples can be found at that website I linked (which looks a bit outdated but it still works), and if this sounds like the sort of thing that would intrigue you, it&#8217;s worth a look.\u00c2\u00a0 The last I heard these were available at 3 for $4, so that should be a wide sampling range if you are so inclined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/waklingman342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17113\" title=\"waklingman342\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/waklingman342-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/waklingman342-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/waklingman342-795x1024.jpg 795w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/waklingman342.jpg 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website E-mail Walking Man Comics #34 Matt Levin has been doing\u00c2\u00a0 comics for a very long time, or at least he has in &#8220;internet years&#8221;. I reviewed one of his books age ago (oddly, it was #38), but he just sent me a few books, so it&#8217;s clear that he is still cranking them out.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2726,3801],"class_list":["post-17111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-matt-levin","tag-walking-man-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17114,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions\/17114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}